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New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is accusing the Justice Department of obstructing the state’s reopened criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch by refusing to provide complete, unredacted federal files. Torrez says the withheld material contains the names of survivors, witnesses, suspected co-conspirators and other people considered essential to determining what happened at the property south of Santa Fe. New Mexico requested the records in February 2026, when the state reopened an investigation that had originally been closed in 2019 at the request of federal prosecutors in New York. In a June 30 letter to Acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Torrez complained that the state had waited roughly 130 days without receiving the information investigators needed.
The Justice Department disputes the accusation, saying it responded to New Mexico in June and remains willing to assist with the Zorro Ranch investigation or pursue any federal crimes uncovered by state authorities. Torrez, however, argues that the delay is especially damaging because investigators are already confronting the loss or deterioration of evidence, the passage of decades since the alleged crimes and complicated questions about jurisdiction. The ranch was sold in 2023, making the preservation and recovery of physical evidence even more difficult. Nearly five months after reopening the case, Torrez has announced no major findings, but his criticism makes clear that New Mexico officials believe federal secrecy is preventing them from identifying potential victims, witnesses and accomplices connected to Epstein’s activities at the ranch.
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New Mexico attorney general says DOJ is withholding 'critical' information related to Epstein's Zorro Ranch
Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team tried to use juror Scotty David as the crowbar to pry open her conviction, arguing that he should never have been seated on the jury because he failed to disclose his own history of sexual abuse during jury selection. After Maxwell was convicted, David gave media interviews saying that he had been abused as a child and that he used that experience during deliberations to explain why victims might delay reporting abuse or misremember certain details. Maxwell’s lawyers seized on that immediately, arguing that his answers on the juror questionnaire were false or misleading, that his presence tainted the jury, and that Maxwell had been denied her right to a fair and impartial panel. Their argument was simple: if David had answered truthfully, the defense would have had grounds to question him more deeply, challenge him, or strike him from the jury altogether.
The problem for Maxwell was that Judge Alison Nathan held a hearing, questioned David under oath, and ultimately found that his failure to disclose the abuse was not intentional dishonesty designed to get onto the jury. David testified that he had rushed through the questionnaire, made a mistake, and did not remember the question the way Maxwell’s lawyers framed it after the fact. The court concluded that Maxwell had not proven juror bias, had not shown that David deliberately lied, and had not met the legal standard required for a new trial. So what Maxwell’s team tried to turn into a constitutional crisis became, in the court’s view, an insufficient basis to disturb the verdict. In the end, the Scotty David issue gave Maxwell a post-trial opening, but it did not give her a way out.
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Vicky Ward became part of the Epstein story through her 2003 Vanity Fair profile, “The Talented Mr. Epstein,” one of the earliest major magazine examinations of his mysterious wealth, relationship with Leslie Wexner and access to powerful people. Ward’s reporting raised serious questions about Epstein’s financial history and described threats made against her while she was preparing the story. More importantly, she interviewed Maria and Annie Farmer, who provided allegations about Epstein’s sexual misconduct years before his crimes became widely known. Those allegations, however, were removed before publication, leaving readers with a profile that exposed Epstein as secretive and potentially dangerous but still presented him largely as an eccentric, fascinating financier surrounded by billionaires, politicians and celebrities. Ward later said then-editor Graydon Carter removed the Farmer material after Epstein pressured the magazine, and she has continued reporting on Epstein, Maxwell and their associates while describing herself as an early journalist who tried to sound the alarm.
The strongest criticism of Ward is that her published profile helped build the mythology surrounding Epstein instead of exposing the predator described to her by the Farmer sisters. Critics argue that regardless of who made the final editorial decision, Ward’s name appeared on a story that excluded the most consequential information she had uncovered and gave Epstein the prestige of a glossy Vanity Fair profile. Her later explanation has also been challenged. A 2022 New Yorker examination found that Ward and Carter offered conflicting accounts of why the allegations were removed and reported that Ward gave changing recollections about when the Farmer material disappeared from the draft. Carter denied suppressing properly documented allegations and said the reporting failed to meet the magazine’s standards, while Ward maintained that Epstein’s intimidation and editorial pressure were decisive. Ward therefore occupies a complicated position in the scandal: she uncovered critical information unusually early and says she fought to publish it, but she has also been criticized for benefiting professionally from the profile, failing to publicly expose the censorship at the time and later presenting a version of events that some former colleagues and subsequent reporting have disputed.
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Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein were not just casual acquaintances or two wealthy men who occasionally crossed paths. The relationship was far closer, more sustained, and more financially entangled than Black first publicly suggested. Black paid Epstein enormous sums for tax, estate, and philanthropic advice, with Apollo’s own commissioned review saying Black paid Epstein roughly $158 million, while Senate investigators later said their review identified even more money flowing through the relationship. Black has insisted the work was legitimate and that Epstein was never involved in Apollo business, but the size of the payments, Epstein’s lack of conventional tax-law credentials, and the length of the relationship made the explanation difficult for critics to swallow. Black himself later called the relationship a “horrible mistake,” but the controversy only deepened as investigators kept uncovering more details about how central Epstein was to Black’s personal financial world
Epstein appears to have had direct access into Black’s family office orbit, including links to Elysium Management and relationships with bankers and financial figures connected to Black’s wealth-management structure. Reporting and congressional scrutiny have also focused on whether Epstein acted as more than a tax adviser, with Senator Ron Wyden alleging that Epstein’s role included unexplained payments, possible payments to women, and even surveillance-related conduct tied to Black; Black has broadly denied wrongdoing and has not been criminally charged. But the larger point is clear: Epstein was not merely someone Black unfortunately hired once. He was embedded close enough to receive staggering sums, move in Black’s personal financial ecosystem, and become a recurring figure in the paper trail that investigators are still trying to untangle.
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Congress has treated the Epstein money trail like a side corridor instead of the main road, and that is the core failure. There have been moves in the right direction — House Oversight sought suspicious activity reports from Treasury, Democrats pushed for subpoenas to major financial institutions, and Chairman James Comer later subpoenaed JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank for Epstein-related financial records — but the pace and posture have never matched the scale of what the money could reveal. Epstein’s operation was not just private jets, mansions, phone books, and social access; it was banking access, wire transfers, shell structures, settlement money, tax maneuvers, professional-services payments, suspicious activity flags, and elite institutional tolerance. JPMorgan already settled a survivor lawsuit for $290 million, Deutsche Bank was previously fined over its Epstein failures, and Leon Black’s payments to Epstein have remained one of the most glaring unresolved financial questions around the case. Yet Congress has too often preferred the safer theater of testimony, document dumps, political name-checking, and public outrage instead of building a relentless financial map of who paid Epstein, who was paid by Epstein, who moved the money, who ignored the red flags, and who benefited from the silence.
That avoidance matters because the money trail is where the cover story starts to collapse. Flight logs tell you who was around him, calendars tell you who had access to him, but financial records tell you who enabled him, who profited from him, who kept him liquid, who looked the other way, and who may have had a direct stake in keeping the full story buried. Congress has shown bursts of interest, including pressure around Leon Black and subpoenas after reports that he resisted questions tied to nondisclosure agreements, but the overall approach has still lacked the kind of prosecutorial ferocity the case demands. A serious investigation would not merely ask banks and billionaires polite questions; it would follow every suspicious activity report, every post-conviction transaction, every professional-services payment, every unexplained fee, every Epstein-linked entity, and every institution that decided his money was clean enough to touch. Instead, the financial side has been allowed to sit behind the spectacle, as if the public should be satisfied with hearings and headlines while the machinery that made Epstein possible remains only partially exposed. And until Congress chases that machinery with real hunger, the Epstein investigation will remain incomplete by design.
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The court’s Opinion and Order addresses a petition brought by Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA), challenging the federal government’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement in Florida. The petitioners argued that federal prosecutors violated their rights by negotiating and finalizing the deal without notifying them, depriving them of the opportunity to be heard and to confer with the government. The court acknowledged the gravity of the allegations and the disturbing nature of the underlying conduct but focused its analysis on jurisdiction, statutory limits, and the scope of relief available under the CVRA.
Ultimately, the court denied the requested relief, concluding that the CVRA did not provide a basis to invalidate the non-prosecution agreement or to grant the remedies sought against the United States. The order emphasized that the CVRA’s enforcement mechanisms are narrow, do not waive sovereign immunity for damages, and do not authorize courts to unwind completed prosecutorial decisions. While recognizing the petitioners’ claims of exclusion and harm, the court held that it lacked authority under the statute to grant retrospective relief that would nullify the agreement, leaving the petitioners without a judicial remedy in that proceeding despite the acknowledged concerns about how the case was handled.
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source:
gov.uscourts.flsd.317867.478.0_9.pdf
The court’s Opinion and Order addresses a petition brought by Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA), challenging the federal government’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement in Florida. The petitioners argued that federal prosecutors violated their rights by negotiating and finalizing the deal without notifying them, depriving them of the opportunity to be heard and to confer with the government. The court acknowledged the gravity of the allegations and the disturbing nature of the underlying conduct but focused its analysis on jurisdiction, statutory limits, and the scope of relief available under the CVRA.
Ultimately, the court denied the requested relief, concluding that the CVRA did not provide a basis to invalidate the non-prosecution agreement or to grant the remedies sought against the United States. The order emphasized that the CVRA’s enforcement mechanisms are narrow, do not waive sovereign immunity for damages, and do not authorize courts to unwind completed prosecutorial decisions. While recognizing the petitioners’ claims of exclusion and harm, the court held that it lacked authority under the statute to grant retrospective relief that would nullify the agreement, leaving the petitioners without a judicial remedy in that proceeding despite the acknowledged concerns about how the case was handled.
to contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
source:
gov.uscourts.flsd.317867.478.0_9.pdf
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